The Light and Dark brothers

Chapter 14 The Deal

"Ash are you okay," a familiar voice echoed in Ash's ears, "Is that you Fang, when did you get here," she helped him on his feet. "I saw the lions emerge from the ground and came to lend my aid but all I found was you on the floor passed out, your familiar show me where you were." Vex rubbed his head against Ash's body, "Thanks bud, you are the best partner anyone could have." Ash turned to Fang to ask her a question, his tone was depressed, "Did we win the war?" "Hell yeah we did," Nicolas answered his question, "We obliterated them, we turned them to dust in a matter of seconds." "Yeah, we left no survivors just like you said," Fang added to Nicolas's answer. "I didn't really say kill everyone but I didn't say not to kill them all so good job, guys." Ash let a smile across his face for a moment then realized why he was there and the smile disappeared. "Let go," Ash said coldly putting the two reapers on alert, "Is there something wrong Ash." "I SAID LET GO," Ash yelled at them walking away from the rubble that was the Iron Legion. Vex the black lion turned into a little lion cub and hopped on Ash's shoulder while he walked back to camp, "I wonder what happened that made him so angry," Fang worried. "We should hurry before things get hairy with the other reapers," Nicolas rushed Fang. Meanwhile, "Hey King it looks like Ash won," Creed shouted to King who was in the barracks resting. Astrid smiled and Sophia cheered, "I knew he would win but how he would win is what I am worried about," Astrid couldn't stop thinking about it. Ash made it back to the bridge where all of the group were waiting for his arrival, "Ash you did it, you won," Sophia hugged Ash but he didn't hug back. Sophia looked up to see Ash's eyes burning red, she let go of him and moved to the side. Ash walked straight to Creed and got in his face, "You didn't tell me he was alive," Ash's eyes burned brightly filled with malefic. "I-I-I," Ash cut him off, "I NOTHING, MY BROTHER WAS STILL ALIVE AND YOU DID NOTHING!" Astrid and the others heard the commotion and went to go investigate it, "What is going on here," Astrid came into the conflict. Ash tossed Creed at King and yelled out to everyone who could hear him, "Stay the hell away from me, I am going to get Isabel and leave for good!" King immediately objected, "What are you trying to say, you don't want anything to do with us anymore," Ash got in his face, "I HAD TO KILL MY OWN BROTHER, WHILE IT COULD HAVE ENDED DIFFERENT IF YOU TOLD ME HE WAS ALIVE!" Ash's eyes switched to an icy cold blue, emotionless he turned around and opened a portal without using an incantation. He walked through before Astrid could stop him, Jax put his hand on Astrid's shoulder, "There was nothing we could do, his eyes stopped us from using our spells and he is fearless when it comes to close combat." "What do we do, King?" Sophia looked for answers from King, "I don't know Sophia." They all stood there speechless of what he told them, "So he killed him, his own brother, Ash is going to lose it if he keeps going through heartache," Jax breaks the silence. Creed openly said, "He wants nothing to do with us now, after all, we did, he might explore on his own with no friends and family so he wouldn't feel the pain of any kind again." Creed pushed his theory into the open air. "You can have all the strength in the world but you will never be able to stop the pain," filled with heartache King said sadly. "We can't give up on him, he is suffering his whole life but he was always able to smile where it counts, he is the only one who can take all of this pain and keep pushing forward to keep all of us safe even if we don't need it." Astrid put her heart in her words laying it all out, "If he won't listen to any of you liars then maybe me and Sophia." King suggested someone, "The only one that gets him is his older sister Rose, she is his protector and best friend, she is the only one that can get through to him." Astrid asks, "Where is she exactly?" Grim came off rude with his comment, "Well if any of us knew, Ash and she would be chatting right here and fixing this mess and not gone to make the deal alone." Sophia smacked Grim in the back of the head, he turned around ready to get her back but she was gone. He turned around to see her behind King pointing her tongue out. The mood got a little brighter, "I have had my tracking familiar looking for her over the past year or so but found nothing, she is a ghost and the fact is she doesn't want to be found is concerning on many levels," Creed gave out his report. "I might know where she is," King remembered, "She is probably laying low at Rich's house in the far mountains near Astrid's kingdom." Grim asked, "Where is Astrid's Kingdom located, I don't think we've ever been there before." "My kingdom is located in the top left corner of the map past Lion's Pride and on the right of my beloved kingdom is the spiritual water users who have a peace agreement with me but soon that is going to end because of my interactions with Ash the only person gods will order treason if aided." "Oh so that means Ravens Point is a neighboring kingdom to the south of your kingdom while Mount Olympus "was'" far southeast of Lion's Pride and we are southwest of Mount Olympus over the Black Legion," Creed replied to Astrid, while Grim stood there absent-minded. A rumbling started then appeared a white light coming down from the sky landing in the middle of the group, "Long time no see Grim, Creed, and you too King," Hermes introduced himself. "I am here to warn you guys of the reason the gods started this war." King scoffed at Hermes, "Yeah it was probably something petty like who gets what land." Hermes quickly answered King's remark, "This is no such thing, the war was deciding the fate of Ash and he was fighting for the side that choose to put him to death, while Zeus tried to reach out to Ash but Hades heard Ash's call and couldn't resist using him as a pawn for his own demise." King walked furiously to go pick up Hermes but Creed and Grim intervened, "King it's not his fault, he just sent the message he didn't make the deal." King pushed the two off him then paced back and forth, "Then why did Zeus want to keep Ash alive, was it just to use him, maybe he thought Ash would be grateful and be his lapdog, like hell he will." Hermes coughed to get their attention, "Zeus wants him to be the champion of the gods and the one to keep them in line. It's the truth, Ash is the only one who can take on rebelling gods and all of you was going to be with him, but he has another plan for Ash now that he is to be killed." Astrid pushed the other out of the way, "What, what is his plan for him, Ash does not need anymore torment of being attacked every day or having to keep one eye open when he sleeps." Hermes steps two feet back to get distance from her, "Well really his only options are he dies, he kills all of the gods or he takes the mantle as the king of the underworld." "Fuck that," King blurts out almost instantaneous, "King shut up, but seriously what the fuck kind of an option is that, imprisonment for as long as he lives," Jax ridiculed the option. Nicolas and the army stepped in, "Sorry to intervene in this important conversion but we pledged our souls to Ash and will gladly take his place when he wants to get out of the pits of the underworld, all of us will fill in for him because of his power and caring personality we made it with only one death. We all are in his debt and with thousands of soldiers who can use fire spells I think we can keep things in order." "Huh, well Ash is somehow making friends in the craziest situations, that solves that problem but the last three problems are, is Ash going to go with this answer and need to find Rose to help ease things, lastly is his emotional problem which is a really dangerous problem. I actually want this problem to succeed," King laid out the problems in a matter of a plan. Hermes waved goodbye and flew off into the sky, "So what is this emotional problem," Sarah reminded everyone. "Well this mental problem is what happens when he undergoes too much loss to where his eyes fade to a dull grey, a flawless killer, Astrid you will mean nothing to him or you Sophia, if you are in his way you die, plain and simple." Everyone tense about the situation started packing up their things, while the army stayed behind and celebrated their victory at the town closest to them. "Everyone ready," Jax shouted to everyone making sure they were ready to take off, "Good, lift-off." Daygon, Jax's dragon flew into the sky while Astrid sat as co-pilot directing them to her kingdom.